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The BAFTAs have us arguing over the wrong words

Assigning guilt over a slur yelled at the British Academy Film Awards ignores the real issues: impact and intent

Published March 1, 2026 12:00PM (EST)

My initial reaction to watching Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo flinch while presenting at the 79th BAFTA Film Awards wasn’t shock or even anger. What struck me first, as they held their composure after someone in the audience shouted the N-word, was exhaustion.

In the hours and days that followed, social media boiled over with rage on behalf of the “Sinners” stars, directed at the man who shouted the slur, John Davidson, the subject of the biographical drama “I Swear.” Accompanying that rage was a fresh explosion of ignorance about Tourette syndrome, the condition that caused Davidson to tic involuntarily throughout last Sunday’s ceremony.

Davidson, who has a symptom of Tourette’s called coprolalia, told Variety that he shouted at least 10 different offensive words during the awards, and the BBC censored all of them except the N-word. This happened despite the BBC airing a pre-recorded version on a two-hour delay. That gave editors ample time to discern what to excise, which included filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. stating “Free Palestine” while accepting an award for “My Father’s Shadow,” his feature-length debut. But somehow the epithet slipped through.

I deeply empathize with........

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